BitTorrent and anonymity are not the same. If you really want to keep your activity private, your best way involves routing your BitTorrent connection through an external services – anonymous proxy, Tor or VPN.

Facebook seems to be very disappointed by the closure of the service in Egypt that provided access to the worldwide web without data charges to more than 3 million people. However, the company still hopes that the situation will be resolved in the near future.

China has adopted a new anti-terror law, which grants the government the right to demand tech companies to decrypt electronic messages stored on their servers. Of course, this law sparked concern from foreign firms. Fortunately, the law as enacted falls short of a draft bill which would have required tech firms to explicitly install backdoors on their devices, thus providing the Chinese government privileged access to the communications of the public.

The most popular BitTorrent indexer lost its active domain names after ThePirateBay.la, .gd, .mn and .vg were suspended by their registrar, as well as some other TPB-related domains. This move makes the website hard to reach using the common channels, but the service still has a backup plan.

The local Internet regulator promised to permanently block the country's top 15 most popular torrent websites. This decision was made after a national survey carried out last week revealed that 40% of torrent users use the BitTorrent protocol to avoid paying. At the same time, another 40% said they use it for other reasons, including content availability.

A number of movie studios are fighting hard against the ongoing leak of awards screeners. In attempt to contain the leaks, Hollywood keeps sending out thousands of takedown requests to Internet portals and companies, mostly torrent sites and Google.

The popular microblogging service has promised to clamp down on trolls in the wake of malicious users hampering Twitter’s efforts to be a frontrunner in the online news market. Twitter announced it was committed to cleansing the service as it enters its 10th year.